Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Unto you my friends (umin toiv filoiv). As opposed to the Pharisees and lawyers in Luke 11:43, Luke 11:46, Luke 11:53.
Be not afraid of (mh fobhqhte apo). First aorist passive subjunctive with mh, ingressive aorist, do not become afraid of, with apo and the ablative like the Hebrew min and the English "be afraid of," a translation Hebraism as in Matthew 10:28 (Moulton, Prolegomena, p. 102).
Have no more that they can do (mh exontwn perissoteron ti poihsai). Luke often uses the infinitive thus with exw, a classic idiom (Luke 7:40, Luke 7:42; Luke 12:4, Luke 12:50; Luke 14:14; Acts 4:14, etc.).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 12:4:
Matthew 10:26
Luke 1:50
Luke 12:2
Luke 12:4
Luke 12:5
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